Portrait of families and living arrangements in Canada : Portrait des familles et situation des particuliers dans les ménages au Canada : familles, ménages et état matrimonial, Recensement de la population de 2011

Overall, same-sex couples accounted for 0.8% of all couples in Canada in 2011, a share which is consistent with recent data from Australia (0.7% in 2011),7 the United Kingdom and Ireland (0.4% for each country in 2011).8 Although not directly comparable, 0.6% of households in the United States were comprised of same-sex couples in 2010.9 Same-sex couples in Canada were more likely to be male (54.5 [...] A complex stepfamily consists of any of the following: • families in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent • families in which there is at least one child of each parent and no children of both parents • families in which there is at least one child of both parents and at least one child of each parent. [...] About 3.7% of parents who were in couples with children (5.1% of men and 2.3% of women) were stepparents in a simple stepfamily and 3.2% were stepparents in a complex stepfamily (4.3% of men and 2.1% of women). [...] Part 2: Living arrangements of children aged 14 and under Increasing share of children aged 14 and under living with common-law parents Of the 5,587,165 individuals aged 14 and under in Canada who lived in private households in 2011, 99.2% were children in census families who lived with married, common-law or lone parents. [...] In contrast, of the 12.0% of children aged 10 to 14 who lived in stepfamilies, the majority were stepchildren (9.9% of all children in this age group).